they're setting up the discourse as demanding we make a choice between banning guns and hiring more cops.

i reject both approaches as equally stupid.

...and equally right-wing, fwiw.

i mean, a proper authoritarian vision would ban guns and hire more cops. what we really get to pick is which one we want first, right?

what we need to do is open a dialogue on reversing the americanization of our culture. we need social programs aimed at young kids. we need poverty reduction mechanisms. expanding educational opportunities.

but, this is going to be the new normal for the next four years: i'm going to find myself continually rejecting both sides of the argument, as two different types of conservatism.